Charter, Entropic Settle Dispute Over Data-Transmission Patents

Charter Communications Inc. and Entropic Communications LLC resolved their patent infringement lawsuit related to data transmission over cable technology, having their joint dismissal request granted the day before a Texas federal jury was to hear the case.

Judge Rodney Gilstrap approved the companies’ settlement request in an order signed Sunday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The request also asked him to retain jurisdiction over the case to enforce the unspecified “monetary payment due under the Dec. 10 settlement agreement between the parties.”

The case was sharply narrowed in late November by a magistrate judge’s ...